Saturday, June 12, 2010

Live Blogging Camping World Trucks In Michigan (1:30PM - SPEED)

One of the best racing series on TV is NASCAR's Camping World Trucks. Quietly consistent for years, the production values and focused announcing has kept the fans coming back again and again.

Today at 1:30PM Krista Voda starts coverage with The Setup pre-race show. Voda will double-up as a pit reporter once the pre-race is over. Adam Alexander is off working on the TNT Sprint Cup telecasts, so Voda will join Ray Dunlap on pit road.

Rick Allen, Phil Parsons and Michael Waltrip will call the action. These three have been very effective since Waltrip discontinued his endless sponsor mentions and attempts at humor. The trucks always have stories to tell and the challenge for the TV booth is simply to tell them.

Old school TV coverage consists of focusing on the racing, period. The last truck race turned out to be a barn burner and the big MIS oval could make for some super action. There are several Sprint Cup Series drivers, like Elliott Sadler, crossing over to the trucks who would really like to return to the winner's circle in any series.

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Hello everyone, darn must be raining bad in Michigan cause Speed just went to the 24 hours of Le Mans! Not my cup of tea but better than anything else on tv so speed stays on but hope it clears up soon so speed can get the truck race in! hows the weather look JD?

MRN is saying the sun is shining around the race track at Michigan. Looks like the remainder of the Truck race and Nationwide qualifying will be running side-by-side, provided it's not raining at Kentucky.

I was a little behind the broadcast trying to catch up from the rain delay and wondered why anyone would want to interview KyB if he doesn't win??? Not a very good one they could have interviewed David Starr and he would have said he was very happy with his 8th place finish!